William Franke https://as.vanderbilt.edu/french-italian/faculty/william-franke/
Department of French and Italian email: william.franke@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt University telephone: (615) 322-6900
Nashville, Tennessee fax: (615) 322-6909
ACADEMIC DEGREES:
1988-91 Stanford University, Ph. D. in Comparative Literature
1986-88 University of California at Berkeley, M.A. in Comparative Literature
1978-80 Oxford University, M.A. in Philosophy and Theology
1974-78 Williams College, B.A. in Philosophy, summa cum laude
EMPLOYMENT:
1991 - present Vanderbilt University (USA)
Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian
and Professor of Religious Studies
2013 - 2016 University of Macao (China, SAR)
Professor Catedrático of Philosophy, Head of Philosophy and Religious Studies Program
2012 University of Hong Kong, hired as Professor of European Studies with first-year leave
International Visiting Appointments and Teaching Abroad
Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Intercultural Theology and Study of Religion,
University of Salzburg, Center for Intercultural Theology and Study of Religions
(Zentrum Theologie Interkulturell und Studium der Religionen), 2006-07
Philosophy Department, University of Frankfurt, Block-Seminar: “Apophatische Theologie und neuzeitliche Philosophie,” Summer Semester 2016
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong, Fall 2005
Visiting Fellow in Philosophy and Religions, University of Macao (China), Fall 2011
Research Scholar in Residence, University of Salzburg (Austria), Summer 2008
Professor of French in Residence, Vanderbilt-in-France, Aix-en-Provence, Spring and Fall 2008
ACADEMIC AWARDS AND HONORS: Fellowships
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Full-year research fellowship in Germany, 1994-95
(affiliated with Universität Potsdam, sponsored by Prof. Dr. Helena Harth)
Bogliasco Foundation (Genova, Italy), Fellow in Philosophy, Spring 2006
Camargo Foundation (Cassis, France), Residential Research Fellowship, Fall 2000
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities (Vanderbilt), Fellow, 1995-96
(year-long weekly seminar on the Millennium, with stipend)
Stanford Fellowship (in lieu of New Century Fellowship at University of Chicago
and University Fellowship at Yale), 1988-91
John E. Moody Scholarship, Oxford University, 1978-80
Honors and Awards
Senior Fellow, The International Institute for Hermeneutics (IIH), 2015-present
HolyLit: Religion and Literature, Freie Universität Berlin & Harvard University, 2016
Certificate of Appreciation, Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, Philippines, 2015
Dante Society Executive Council, by general election of the Dante Society of America, 2007-2010
Rosenberg Poetry Prize, UC Berkeley, 1987
Skeat-Whitfield Essay Prize in English, Oxford University, 1979
John W. Miller Prize in Philosophy, Williams College, 1978
Phi Beta Kappa, 1977
Grants and Stipends
Multi-Year Research Grant, Level IV (highest) 1,500,000 MOP (= 152,000 Euros or $188,000 USD) from Macao Government for “Apophatic Paths from Europe to China” research project (2014-17)
Start-Up Research Grant, 150,000 MOP (=18,800 USD), University of Macao, 2013
Research Scholar Grant for translation into German of Poetry and Apocalypse,
Vanderbilt University Research Council, Summer 2008-09
Research Grant for On What Cannot Be Said, Vanderbilt University Research Council, 2002
Travel Awards from the Istituto Italiano per gli studi filosofici, Naples, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998
Direct Research Support Grant, Vanderbilt University Research Council, Summer 1996
Summer Research Grant, Vanderbilt University Research Council, Italy 1992
PUBLICATIONS: Books
A Theology of Literature: The Bible as Revelation in the Tradition of the Humanities
Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 150-200 pages, forthcoming
Cascade Companions series, Cascade Books Imprint
Apophatic Paths from Europe to China: Regions Without Borders
Albany: State University of New York Press, forthcoming
Series on Chinese Philosophy and Culture, edited by Roger Ames
Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante
Columbus: Ohio State University Press: 2016 (256 + xii pages)
Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies series, edited by Lori Branch
The Revelation of Imagination:
From the Bible and Homer through Virgil and Augustine to Dante
Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2015 (424 + xii pages)
A Philosophy of the Unsayable
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014 (384 + viii pages)
Dante and the Sense of Transgression: ‘The Trespass of the Sign’
London and New York: Continuum [Bloomsbury Academic], 2013
New Directions in Religion and Literature Series,
edited by Mark Knight and Emma Mason (200 + xv pages)
Poetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language
Stanford: Stanford University Press: 2009 (211 + xiv pages)
Translated into German by Ursula Liebing and Michael Sonntag as:
Dichtung und Apokalypse: Theologische Erschliessungen der dichterischen Sprache
Aus dem Amerikanischen von Ursula Liebing und Michael Sonntag
Salzburger Theologische Studien Band 39 (Interkulturell 6)
Innsbruck: Tyrolia Verlag, 2011 (216 pages)
On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.
Edited with Theoretical and Critical Essays by William Franke
Vol. I: Classic Formulations (401 + xi pages)
On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.
Edited with Theoretical and Critical Essays by William Franke
Vol. II: Modern and Contemporary Transformations (480 + viii pages)
Dante’s Interpretive Journey
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996 (242 + xi pages)
Religion and Postmodernism series, edited by Mark C. Taylor
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